Income-tax Appellate Tribunal recruitment amended: Government servants may have up to five years' service recognised under Central Government instructions. The 1984 amendment substitutes paragraph (a) of the proviso to clause (ii) of rule 3(3) of the 1963 Rules to provide that, in the case of Government servants, up to five years of service shall be recognised in accordance with instructions or orders issued by the Central Government; the amendment takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette under the proviso to article 309 of the Constitution.